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Photograph of Tower of London

The place

Tower of London

Anne Boleyn's Ghost

The headless queen who haunts the Tower

1536 AD - Tudor Period to PresentTower of London

The headless queen who haunts the Towers long and haunted history. She has been seen in the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula, where her mutilated body was hastily buried in an old arrow chest because no proper coffin had been provided. She has been seen on Tower Green, where she died. She has been seen in the corridors of the White Tower, gliding silently in a grey gown, and near the Queen's House where she spent her final days. In every sighting, she appears headless — carrying her severed head tucked beneath her arm.

Moral of the Story

Injustice echoes through the ages, and those wrongfully destroyed refuse to be forgotten

Characters

A
Anne Boleyn - Queen of England
B
beheaded 1536
H
Henry VIII - The King who ordered her death
T
The Sentry of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (1864)
C
Captain J.D. Dundas - Captain of the Guard (1882)
E
Elizabeth I - Anne's daughter
F
future Queen

Source

Tower of London official records, 1864 court-martial proceedings, Captain J.D. Dundas report (1882), Yeoman Warder oral history, Peter Underwood's "Haunted London"